How I Fixed Golfer’s Elbow and Transformed My Training Routine

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The #1 Thing I Wish I Started Sooner: Injury Proof Your Body

On today’s episode of Live Lean TV, I’m sharing how I fixed golfer’s elbow and transformed my training routine.

During my Live Lean journey, I’ve done a lot of things right.

However, if I had to go back and change one thing, it would be this.

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I focused too much of my workout time on lifting weights and HIIT training.

Say what?!?

Don’t get me wrong.

Lifting and HIIT workouts are super important to Living Lean.

However, here’s the thought process where many people, myself included, have got it wrong.

We think: I only need to lift weights, do cardio, and eat healthy foods to look and feel good.

So so wrong.

Here’s the problem.

What’s the point of having lean muscle and sculpted abs, if you wake up every morning with stiff and achy joints that make even the simplest things in life, like picking up your grandkids, extremely painful.

Here’s a quick personal story that I want to share with you.

My First Training Related Injury: Golfer’s Elbow

Back in 2014, I experienced my first and only significant injury caused by training.

Over time, I developed a bad case of golfer’s elbow.

Golfer’s elbow is a sharp pain in your elbow where the tendons of the forearm connect to the bony bump on the inside of your elbow.

Anytime I flexed my elbow, by doing bicep curls and pulling exercises like pull ups, a sharp pain shot up straight up my arm.

This was super annoying and extremely painful when training.

How I Fixed Golfer’s Elbow

I spent thousands of dollars getting treated by chiropractors, physiotherapists, MAT practitioners, and massage therapists.

They all said that I needed to take at least 6 weeks off from lifting, to let my golfer’s elbow recover.

However, it actually took a lot longer than 6 weeks.

To me, the thought of not being able to workout in the gym terrified me.

If you are a fitness junkie like me, you know the feeling.

However, this nagging golfer’s elbow injury was a blessing in disguise because it highlighted a major weakness in my training.

Even though I was strong, muscular, and had abs, I wasn’t flexible or mobile, and this was hindering my recovery from my workouts, and was leading to chronic pain and injuries in my elbow.

Good luck staying healthy and fit into your 50’s and 60’s, when you have issues with jacked up, creaky, and painful joints.

During the 6 weeks I took off from lifting, I dug deep into training for mobility, and learned how to prepare my body for:

• Peak performance
• Improved movement patterns

This ultimately provided my body with better, long-term, healthy results.

Fast forward to over the last 3 years, I documented a lot of my mobility journey on my BradGouthroTV YouTube vlogs and Instagram, which led to many of you to ask what I was doing.

This is when I had an epiphany.

My New Fitness Goal

Even though I was lean and ripped, I was beginning to get injured more frequently and wasn’t recovering as fast as I used to.

My new fitness goal was to:

• Move better
• Feel better
• Perform better than ever before

After having this injury and epiphany, I began allocating just 10 minutes of my day to improving my mobility and flexibility.

The result is I now feel looser and more agile than ever, at 37 years old.

As a Live Leaner, you’re in this fitness game for the long-term.

This gave me the idea to create Live Lean Mobility.

Welcome To Live Lean Mobility: 10 Minute Mobility Workouts

Live Lean Mobility is a video training program comprised of 10 minute follow along mobility workouts.

It’s simple.

As long as you are a Live Leaner, you’re on this healthy journey for the long-term.

However, even though I consider myself an optimist, I see some of the workout videos you send me, so I have to give it straight to you.

Many of you will not be able to continue doing the workouts you enjoy into your 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s, because you’re neglecting a major aspect of overall fitness and health, your mobility.

Your mobility is just an after thought, so you aren’t even doing it.

As I mentioned, I was guilty of this myself.

What Are The Most Common Mobility Issues?

Unfortunately in today’s world of 9-5 office desk jockey jobs, 24/7 mobile device usage, and sitting on the couch for Netflix marathons, has led to many posture and alignment issues.

On top of that, many people like you, who workout regularly, are also unnecessarily creating excessive tightness in your body, because you are not properly recovering from your workouts.

This unnecessary tightness is going to lead to injuries such as:

• Muscle strains
• Achy and sore joints
• Jacked up lower backs
• Knee and shoulder pain

That’s just to name a few.

I’m sure as I list of few of these injuries, you’re probably thinking about your own personal issues right now.

This unnecessary tightness also leads to certain muscles overcompensating for other muscles.

When this happens, it essentially turns these muscles off, creating muscle imbalances, and limiting their ability to grow and strengthen, as well as adding more stress on your precious joints.

For example, when you sit down all day, your glute muscles get turned off.

This means your glute muscles may not be firing correctly when your squatting and deadlifting.

At this point I was always tired of waking up feeling super stiff and tight.

If you are struggling with these same aches and pains, that continuously stop you from getting amazing results with your workouts, you are not alone, because I was there too.

Don’t Become Another Gym Injury Statistic

Let me throw this out there.

If you’re truly in this fitness and health game for the long-term, don’t become another gym injury statistic.

This is why I’ve been focused on improving my mobility over the last 4 years and why I created these 10 minute follow along workouts to quickly improve your flexibility, fire up your muscles, and injury-proof your body for life.

Here’s What You Get With Live Lean Mobility

This is the video program I used to transform from a tight, rigid, and injury prone body, to a flexible, mobile, and injury-free machine.

Even though I’m still on my mobility journey, my improvements have been drastic.

The Live Lean Mobility Program includes the following.

7 Mobility Workout Videos

Each mobility workout is designed to free up your body of tightness, aches, and pains, and allow you to not only look good, but feel even better.

Only 10 Minutes To Complete

Things that get planned, get completed.

This is why I included a mobility workout schedule.

Simply follow the mobility workout schedule to stay accountable to your goals.

Each mobility workout can be completed before or after your strength training workout.

The workouts can also be designed to be completed on your rest days as part of your active recovery.

They can be completed anytime during the day, including in the morning, or when you’re at home watching TV.

It doesn’t matter.

Follow Along In Real-Time With Me

Simply click play and do as I say.

You will follow along with me as I take you through every move during the mobility workout.

You can complete these workouts at the gym, while following along to the videos on your mobile phone or tablet, or you can do them at home or outdoors.

Let’s get rid of your nagging aches and pains, improve your flexibility faster than you think, and let’s get you moving better and performing better during your training.

Once you do this, you’ll be able to fire up your muscles and safely improve your range of motion to injury proof your body for life.

That’s the key.

I hope you’ll learn from my mistake, before it also happens to you.

Let’s get you inside the Live Lean Mobility Workout Program and let’s get you mobile.

See you at the first 10 minute mobility workout video.

Keep Living Lean.